IMF hacked and extremely sensitive data about Irelands finances stolen

gonedrinking

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13740591

This is bad, this is really bad. I'm not going to name the country I think was involved as I don't want to be a target of them, but I think its pretty obvious to everyone who it was. Its about time the US government got the finger out and started retaliating. Enough is enough.

sparks24

shame they didn't delete the bill

strobe

Good.

REXER

Great, we might finally hear the truth about the Irish financial system!

El Weirdo

Did they get our PIN? Surely they'll never get the answer to our security question?

Mickjg

Who do they think it might be, the Chinese?

OMG Its EoinD

Ah well , they could use it as a case study of "how not to run a country" in the future

Bazzy

Country is fcuked what could they get from it ?

expectationlost

bit of an exaggeration to say that Ireland data was stolen

Asry

those hacker folks are raking it in lately.

Mr.Crinklewood

"staff had been told of the intrusion on Wednesday".

This bit could have referred to Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

sunflower27

Maybe they are going to help us

kippy

Its not clear from that reaport what, if anything, was stolen........and there's not even a mention of Ireland..........

Riamfada

dosnt matter if they got our PIN


"you have insufficient funds in your bank account to proceed with this transaction"

BarryM

gonedrinking wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13740591
This is bad, this is really bad. I'm not going to name the country I think was involved as I don't want to be a target of them, but I think its pretty obvious to everyone who it was. Its about time the US government got the finger out and started retaliating. Enough is enough.

Are you nuts or (just) paranoid?? What is 'really bad' ?? the story is a vague tale about suspicious file transfers and the takeover of a screen. Christ, any medium intelligent nerd could do that - the real deal here is the extremely poor security at IMF. Most public bodies of this kind have staff who are political appointees and have f all knowledge of the sort of security they should have and the sort of routines they should have to check it. They depend on staff telling them what they want to hear.

If you want to hack any system just go in to their buiilding, two of you, distract one of the receptionists and watch another one use their terminal, lean over the counter and see the passwords on the post it note, read the paperwork upside down on their desk, etc....easy. I was in the local Garda station recently (to get them to prove I am still alive...!) and there in full view was the login sequence of the pulse system.....

gonedrinking

expectationlost wrote: »

bit of an exaggeration to say that Ireland data was stolen

Yeah I just presumed it was. I think it goes without saying that info about Ireland was stolen given the details contained in the article.

mgmt

It could be bad if they get our true economic data and leak it to the financial world.

gonedrinking

Bazzy wrote: »

Country is fcuked what could they get from it ?

The info is extremely valuable to hedge funds and other entities who are effectively betting on when a country is going to default. This info will allow them to take positions on this. Its a self fulfilling prophecy as it causes a tidal wave of fear and doubt in the country that causes others to follow the same path.

gonedrinking

BarryM wrote: »

Are you nuts or (just) paranoid?? What is 'really bad' ?? the story is a vague tale about suspicious file transfers and the takeover of a screen.

Given that the IMF have described it as a very major cyber attack, I don't think I'm over reacting. These things are usually downplayed so when they come out with statements like that you know its time to panic and start cracking each others skulls open.

kippy

gonedrinking wrote: »

Given that the IMF have described it as a very major cyber attack, I don't think I'm over reacting. These things are usually downplayed so when they come out with statements like that you know its time to panic and start cracking each others skulls open.

Indeed...........
I couldnt give a **** if the head of the IMF were on trial for alleged rape........
oh wait..........

To be honest, if the "attack" were that serious, we wouldn't have heard about it at all.

Whats probably happened here is the IMF need to spend some large on security but aren't getting sign off on it, this is just a reminder to the world that they need the best of the best etc.........

Jarren

those flipping hackers

http://movieclips.com/sgNVB-zoolander-movie-computer-experts/

Was it Iceland?

Notorious97

Does it really matter? Irelands up **** creek anyway, this information will only confirm what we all think anyway!

galwayrush

Who the **** would want the info anyways?:pac::pac::pac:

mgmt

Deleted User wrote: »

Was it Iceland?

1. China



2. Russia
3. Israel

giftgrub

North Korea....J'accuse!!!!

North Korea hacker threat grows as cyber unit grows: defector

SEOUL (Reuters) - Secretive North Korea is scouring its universities for computer prodigies to send overseas for training as part of a plan to expand its cyber warfare unit, a defector said on Wednesday, underscoring the increased risk of cyber attacks.

The South has accused the North of being responsible for a number of computer hacking incidents this year, including an "unprecedented act of cyber terror" in April that brought down the network of a leading South Korea bank.

The two Koreas are still technically at war, having only signed a truce to end the 1950-53 Korean War.

"North Korea last year raised the status of its cyber warfare unit under the Reconnaissance General Bureau and increased the number of troops in the unit from 500 to about 3,000," Kim Heung-kwang told a cyber terrorism seminar in Seoul.

Kim, who escaped from the North in 2003 and now heads a defectors' group called North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, said the reclusive state is seeking out young electronic whizzes to train as hackers.

"These prodigies are provided with the best environment, and if they graduate with top grades, their parents in the provinces are given the opportunity to live in Pyongyang," Kim, who had worked as professor at colleges in the North and has maintained contacts since then, said.

"After studying at local universities, these students are given the special privilege of continuing their studies abroad."

Analysts have warned the North may carry out more unconventional attacks against the South rather than traditional military assaults such as the shelling of a South Korean island last year that killed four people.

Seoul has vowed to hit back hard if Pyongyang launches another direct military assault, saying it will retaliate with air power and bombs.

A South Korean defense white paper released earlier this year warned that the cyber threat from the North had increased, saying they had become more intelligent and virulent.

Last month, the South blamed the North for the computer crash at Nonghyup bank that affected millions of customers who were unable to use the bank's credit cards and ATMs for more than a week.

The North rejected the accusation.

South Korean prosecutors said the same North Korean hackers were also to blame for other strikes on government and corporate sites, exposing the South's heavily wired financial system's vulnerability.

Don Juan DeMagoo

If we are going to start these conspiracy theories at least make then interesting.
It wasn't China, Russia, Israel or North Korea. That is so boring ...... however I have an interesting theory myself.

It was in fact our own Department of Finance. Their plan was simple, to hack into to the IMF in order to figure out exactly what the true extent of our situation is as they are too inept to figure it out themselves. But that was only phase one of their daring plan. Updates to follow

orourkeda

I think we can rule out wikileaks.

They never tell us anything we didnt already now.

Fukuyama

Hope to God this was WikiLeaks and we get some straight answers!

Fukuyama

orourkeda wrote: »

I think we can rule out wikileaks.

They never tell us anything we didnt already now.

Haven't they released over 200,000 ultra secure documents from the Pentagon? Unless you're the head of the CIA I doubt you knew all that...

Phill Ewinn

There'll be more than Europe who knows about the traitors who work for the dept. of finance and ran the country over here. Puts us in a compromised position. Why would any country take a gamble on us if they found out the truth?

galwayrush

orourkeda wrote: »

I think we can rule out wikileaks.

They never tell us anything we didnt already now.

I disagree....:D
They told us that some envoy described Mary Coughlan as being bright / intelligent,:pac::pac::pac:

Kasabian

I had my bank account details hacked once, it was very kind of them to put some money in my account. All hackers are not bad people.

Dj Stiggie

orourkeda wrote: »

I think we can rule out wikileaks.

They never tell us anything we didnt already now.

Wikileaks only publish information given to them by their sources.

And they've released more than just the Cablegate documents...

brimal

What a sensationalist thread title. No details have been released of the attack. OP must know something the press don't.

Solair

Damn! They'll have access to:

C:/countries/Ireland/files/scary/omg/totallyFecked/nationalaccounts.xls

Sir Oxman

brimal wrote: »

What a sensationalist thread title. No details have been released of the attack. OP must know something the press don't.

Yeah and don't forget the country will come after the OP if he names them...

partyatmygaff

gonedrinking wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13740591

This is bad, this is really bad. I'm not going to name the country I think was involved as I don't want to be a target of them, but I think its pretty obvious to everyone who it was.

Yeah China/North Korea are really going to care about some random forum poster. You're not that important for them to "target" you.

Its about time the US government got the finger out and started retaliating. Enough is enough.

The funny thing is that if they actually did "retaliate" (I'd love to see them try and 'retaliate' against China for something that had nothing to do with them) then you would be calling the US warmongers.

gonedrinking

partyatmygaff wrote: »

The funny thing is that if they actually did "retaliate" (I'd love to see them try and 'retaliate' against China for something that had nothing to do with them) then you would be calling the US warmongers.

All I'm saying is that the country which did this deserves to be attacked in retaliation, they are the warmongers here.

washman3

REXER wrote: »

Great, we might finally hear the truth about the Irish financial system!

was exactly my first thought too.!!!
really hope its true, would show up lots of people for what they are.

senordingdong

Just don't tell them your mothers maiden name.

Mike 1972

That IMF file in full

Ireland: FUBAR
Vatican: Lead by a Catholic
Canada: Big Forests, Lots of Bears

dlofnep

Dean0088 wrote: »

Hope to God this was WikiLeaks and we get some straight answers!

Um, that's not how wikileaks works. They don't attack anyone. Data is submitted anonymously to them - they just act as a medium to communicate the said data.

Cavehill Red

Solair wrote: »

Damn! They'll have access to:

C:/countries/Ireland/files/scary/omg/totallyFecked/nationalaccounts.xls

Fixed your link.

Karamoja

gonedrinking wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13740591

This is bad, this is really bad. I'm not going to name the country I think was involved as I don't want to be a target of them, but I think its pretty obvious to everyone who it was. Its about time the US government got the finger out and started retaliating. Enough is enough.

What the f..... that article didn't have one mention of Ireland.

Killer Wench

Wasn't it like two weeks ago that there were threads on this board calling out the US for interfering in too much and using our vast resources in evil ways... and now someone wants us to ride in on our white chargers to save the day?

Fascinating.

digme

gonedrinking wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13740591

This is bad, this is really bad. I'm not going to name the country I think was involved as I don't want to be a target of them, but I think its pretty obvious to everyone who it was. Its about time the US government got the finger out and started retaliating. Enough is enough.

you're an easy sell lol
just wait for the internet controls to be put in place and you'll be moaning like a little bitch

digme

sparks24 wrote: »

shame they didn't delete the bill

actually it was us who gave them billions in real cash.
it's a pitty people are so retarded

galwayrush

Karamoja wrote: »

What the f..... that article didn't have one mention of Ireland.

We're not really important enough.

Eric Cartman

"all the data captured was a single pdf file containing 100 pages saying 'irelands ****ed' in different fonts and colours"

digme

digme wrote: »

actually it was us who gave them billions in real cash.
it's a pitty people are so retarded

Looking at your post, I have to agree.